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Who doesn’t love a good afternoon of baking treats – more importantly Halloween treats. Yesterday I had my friend Aimee round and we spent 3 hours together getting our bake off on – I’m not too sure we would be accepted for the bake off but we were pretty proud of our attempts, and I thought I’d share them with you.
Lets start with the witches hat cupcakes.
What you’ll need –
- 40g Cocoa Powder
- 3 eggs
- 4tbsp water
- 175g unsalted butter
- 165g caster sugar
- 115g self raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- For the buttercream and decoration –
- 150g unsalted butter
- 300g Icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- purple food colouring
- white chocolate
- ice cream cones
- Cream together the butter and sugar
- Mix in the 3 eggs and the water
- Stir in flour, baking powder and cocoa powder
- Add into your cupcake cases and bake at 200°C for 13-15 minutes.
- Next to make your buttercream, cream together the butter and icing sugar with some vanilla extract – be careful it can be very messy if using an electric whisk like we found – a cloud of icing sugar cover the kitchen. Oops!
- Mix in a little food colouring – we choose purple but whichever colour floats your boat!
- Pipe your buttercream onto the top of your cupcakes and then add your ice cream cone on top like a hat. We piped a little extra buttercream around the base and melted some white chocolate and piped a little buckle on.
Then we’ve got this cute vanilla sponge cupcakes.
What you’ll need –
- 175g unsalted butter
- 175g self raising flour
- 175 caster sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
For the Buttercream –
- 300g icing sugar
- 150g unsalted butter
- melted white chocolate
- Purple food colouring
- Halloween decorations – we found these in the Sainsbury’s baking aisle.
- Mix together the butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs and vanilla extract.
- Stir together the flour and baking powder.
- Next add to cupcake cases and bake at 200°C for 12-15 minutes.
- Make up your buttercream again by mixing together the butter and icing sugar – and again can add vanilla extract and the purple food colouring.
- Pipe on and I mixed some melted white chocolate with some green food colouring to give it a bit of an eery colouring and drizzled in over some of the cakes before adding a topper. We also used the chocolate to pipe out some spiderweb shapes onto grease proof paper and popping them in the fridge to harden – these make very cute cake toppers!
Lastly we’ve got the black and purple swirl cookies! These look so great and taste just like shortbread! Yum!
What you’ll need –
- 2.5 cups of flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/4 cups of unsalted butter
- green food colouring
- black food colouring
- purple food colouring
- 1 1/4 cups of caster sugar
- 2/3 cup of icing sugar
- 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
- Mix together the butter, caster sugar & icing sugar.
- Add baking powder, vanilla extract and flour and mix until dough like
- Separate into three balls of dough and one by one add a food colouring to each – we found gel colours work best, and be patient its starts a little crumbly and the more you work it into your hands it’ll become more of a dough consistency.
- Next each ball needs to be rolled out – place it in between two sheets of baking paper to keep it from sticking – then once all rolled lie them on top of each other and roll up into a ‘sausage shape’ (I’m sorry if i’m not explaining this well at all!?)
- Once rolled up it’ll need to sit in the fridge for 2 hours – once out cut up into rolls and cook at 200°C for 15 minutes,
These we found a little harder to make but the taste soo good!
Hope you’ve enjoyed this post and the pictures of our yummy treats! See you tomorrow for another day of Blogtober!
*In the background of these pictures I used the Chillistick fog pack I was gifted this in return for some posts and have used it as a prop in the back for these pictures. Full review coming soon!
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